inpatient episode

inpatient episode

As defined in the UK, the period of time which an inpatient spends under the care of a consultant within a specialty in a hospital/significant facility. Inpatient episodes begin with an inpatient admission (or inpatient transfer-in) and end with an inpatient discharge (or inpatient transfer-out or death).

Hospital characteristics consisted of type of ownership, teaching status, location, number of specialties, number of beds, number of medical staff, types of equipment, patient volume, and medical costs per inpatient episode.

many entries in the documentation have no time next to them" and "poor documentation throughout this inpatient episode has contributed to difficulty in establishing facts relating to the level and standard of care given.

The purpose of this study was to describe the experience of being a patient with a brain tumor and the perception of the care received during an inpatient episode in a neurosurgery clinic of a university hospital.

Additional contributing factors were lower payments per claim for hospital outpatient services with more frequent use of these services but lower payments per service, and higher overall payment per hospital inpatient episode.

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